We work #DavidChase, #PeterThiel, #HoratioAlger & #Herblock into a review of a searing indictment of the #BabyBoomer generation. As if you need more reasons to read it. We review #BruceCannonGibney’s #AGenerationofSociopaths: http://the-agency-review.com/generation-of-sociopaths #sociology #history #culture
We work #DavidChase, #PeterThiel, #HoratioAlger & #Herblock into a review of a searing indictment of the #BabyBoomer generation. As if you need more reasons to read it. We review #BruceCannonGibney’s #AGenerationofSociopaths: http://the-agency-review.com/generation-of-sociopaths #sociology #history #culture

Here's Pen Avenue, my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh's East End newspaper, with a nod to two great cartoonists, Cy Hungerford and Herblock:

https://jaythurber.com/2025/11/22/pen-avenue-for-november-2025/

#Pittsburgh #herblock #cartoon

@adam Herblock was wonderful! We can probably find many more cartoons appropriate to the current situation.

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblock/overview.html

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblocks-history/about.html

#Herblock #LibraryOfCongress

Overview - Herblock! | Exhibitions - Library of Congress

Image was created by cartoonist Herbert Block in 1949, near the start of the "Second #RedScare." Seventy five years later, the powerful still use the tool of irrational #fear to suppress human #liberty.

#cartoon #herblock #histodons

‘PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC’ by #Herblock records the horrors of the Chinese suppression of student-led pro-democracy protests, when, on June 3 and 4, 1989, troops and tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square (Beijing) to violently crush the dissent. #tiananmensquare #Democracy #StudentProtests #Protests #EditorialCartoon #China #Democracy

Cartoon Friday 🤗

1. “With the arrest of Alexander #Smirnov — the main source of ‘evidence’ for the impeachment of Joe #Biden — for lying to the #FBI, and all the other witnesses refuting the notion that President Biden committed any high crime or misdemeanor, could the #House inquiry get any worse for the #GOP? Maybe.”-#RickMcKee

2. “The shoes are the least tacky aspect of the #WhiteSupremacist, #Fascist, neo-#NAZI-infested #MAGA movement.”-#DarrinBell

3. Historical (old Reagan gem by #HerbLock)

#republicans #republicancult #voteblue #counterpoint
https://counterpoint.substack.com/p/how-much-is-too-much-edition

🗞️"How Much Is Too Much?" Edition

“With the arrest of Alexander Smirnov — the main source of ‘evidence’ for the impeachment of Joe Biden — for lying to the FBI, and all the other witnesses refuting the notion that President Biden committed any high crime or misdemeanor, could the House inquiry get any worse for the GOP?

Counterpoint
Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong with hammer and sickle, 1960
#Herblock portrays Communist China’s Mao Zedong and the Soviet Union’s Nikita Khrushchev seemingly united by the Soviet symbol of the hammer and sickle. However, by 1960, China and Russia were denouncing each other because of differences in ideology. Each leader, clenches his fist and glares at the other with a grim expression, enhanced by body language that indicates a face off between the two communist leaders.
[Qaddafi, Hussein, Assad, and Khomeini each thinking of “the bomb”], 1984 Graphite, porous point pen, ink, opaque white, and overlays over blue pencil underdrawing
#herblock
https://www.reddit.com/r/ColdWarPosters/comments/11vo1d9/qaddafi_hussein_assad_and_khomeini_each_thinking/
[Qaddafi, Hussein, Assad, and Khomeini each thinking of “the bomb”], 1984 Graphite, porous point pen, ink, opaque white, and overlays over blue pencil underdrawing

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The Library of Congress does some excellent curation of #Herblock cartoons, a great way to look through the Cold War: https://npg.si.edu/blog/closing-exhibition-herblock%E2%80%99s-presidents
https://loc.gov/exhibits/herblocks-history/about.html
There are problems and challenges that are even relevant today.
Closing Exhibition: Herblock’s Presidents | National Portrait Gallery

"Look—Nice Tapes—Okay, Boy? Okay?"/Herbert Lawrence Block,October 24, 1973/Pencil on paper Herbert L. Block Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C./ © The Herb Block Foundation The National Portrait Gallery's exhibition “Herblock’s Presidents: ‘Puncturing Pomposity’” is closing soon, so see it while you can. The exhibition’s final day